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Reference points in renegotiations: The role of contracts and competition
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …
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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio
Letina, Igor - 2015
duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …
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Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure
Dunne, Timothy; Klimek, Shawn D.; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, … - 2013
competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …
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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio
Letina, Igor - 2014
competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …
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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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Competition of e-commerce intermediaries
Matros, Alexander; Zapechelnyuk, Andriy - 2010
little, fierce competition between providers of similar services is expected. We consider a model where two e …
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Determinants of director compensation in two-tier systems: evidence from German panel data
Andreas, Jörn Michael; Rapp, Marc Steffen; Wolff, Michael - 2010
Building on a unique panel data set of German Prime Standard companies for the period 2005-2008, this paper investigates the influencing factors of both director compensation levels and structure, i.e. the probability of performance-based compensation. Drawing on agency theory arguments and...
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Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract
Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2010
We offer the first direct evidence of an implicit contract in a goods market. The evidence we offer comes from the market for Coca-Cola. We demonstrate that the Coca-Cola Company left a substantial amount of written evidence of its implicit contract with its consumers-a very explicit form of an...
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